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Another weekend and another charity shop haul. Three more Arthur C Clarke books: "The Deep Range"; "Childhood's End"; and "The Fountains of Paradise". Also "The Man in the High Castle" by Phillip K Dick. Finally I picked up “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle. All in it cost me £11 which I think is pretty good going. #bookhaul #charityshop #arthurcclarke #philipkdick #arthurconandoyle #books #bookstodon
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I made the mistake of attempting to read Rama II.
I remember liking the original Rama novel. I gave it some grace because it's a Big Dumb Space Object novel despite being written by Clarke who I think we can all agree is objectively not very good at the craft.
But Rama II, boy, what an interminable slog full of just oddly-conceived stereotype characters. Takes a quarter of the book to just get off earth. Too much (bad) dialogue. Yuck.
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@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!